Festival Screening – October 15, 2015 @ 8:00 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Young Hongi (James Rolleston, star of Boy) is the son of a great chief. He longs to be trained as a fighter but his father plans for him to be a strategist and guardian of his people. When Wirepa (Te Kohe […]
Festival Screening September 24, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at Theatre Junction Grand The fun, upbeat camaraderie juxtaposed with devastating battle scenes and b-roll that Gross shot while in Afghanistan truly captures the reality of warfare. Although Canadian audiences are not unfamiliar with the modern-day war genre due to the recent popularity of American military films […]
First Festival Screening – September 12, 2015 @ 10:30 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox Second Festival Screening – September 14, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 20, 2015 @ 2:45 PM at The TIFF Bell Lightbox An Old-West enthusiast in modern-day France embarks on a 16-year odyssey […]
First Festival Screening – September 13, 2015 @ 8:30 PM at Ryerson Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:00 PM at Elgin/Winter Garden Theatres After his parents are killed, a young African boy is forced to become a child soldier in a rebel army led by a brutal commandant (Idris Elba, Mandela: Long […]
First Festival Screening – September 11, 2015 @ 4:15 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Last Festival Screening – September 18, 2015 @ 6:30 PM at The Scotiabank Theatre Director Pietra Brettkelly (The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins) follows a group of dedicated Afghan cinephiles who are literally excavating their country’s cinematic past, as they […]
First Festival Screening – September 17, 2015 @ 7:00 PM at The ByTowne Cinema Last Festival Screening – September 19, 2015 @ 9:15 PM at The ByTowne Cinema Adama is the story of our 12 year-old eponymous hero and his decision to leave the remote West African village in which he grew up in order […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Rebels attack a poor village somewhere in Africa and force 12-year-old Komona to shoot her parents in cold blood. The rebels force her into their child army where they regularly beat her and teach her to fire an AK-47. After drinking “magic milk” Komona sees her dead parents, who warn […]
